Patwa's Paradiso On The Web

Just lil' ol' Me

Recent Entries

22nd-Jun-2007 07:00 am - Day 2, Shooting, Chainsaws and CMS

The second full day on the Amitriptyline 10mg with tomorrow being the first at 20mg. Yesterday I slept for most of the day and was feeling really drowsy even in the evening when I woke up. Today was better, mum and I went for lunch at the Ashvale which was good, and I had the usual breaded mushrooms with the garlic dip which I'll just never get tired of. Yesterday I didn't have a headache all morning which was a change, but the afternoon was just a little less severe than usual. Today was a bad day for the toes though. I went rifle shooting in the evening but couldn't really stand much so just sat for most of it. Morag, one of our group of for (well now three) visually impaired shooters passed away quite suddenly last week. Ali (who's sort of my unofficial mentor for the sport) wasn't really feeling up to 'proper' shooting, so we just spent the 90 minutes from when I got up to the range with him showing me how to load the rifle, use the target retrieval system and mount the rifle on its stand correctly. I picked it up pretty quickly and for me it's one step closer to independence. We also discussed the possibility of my using a stool to shoot. I would sit on it instead of standing, which would take the weight off my feet and alleviate the problem of my having to stop and rest every now and then. We'll have to check with the sport regulators as to what kind of chair or stool would be acceptable. It has to meet certain criteria, for example, it must not allow any part of the body to receive unfair support that would aid balancing the rifle, and it must not give the shooter any further directional or stabilization guidance. Time will tell what happens with that, but it would make shooting much more enjoyable for me and allow me to spend more time doing it.

Another thing I did today was to finally buy the chainsaw from Tesco that I've been eyeing up for a while now. The trees at the back of our garden have a few rather thick limbs and branches that have grown outwards, one of which is actually being entirely supported by our shed. As we want to take the shed down sometime in the near future, it'd have to be cut down anyway, but the fact that it's putting pressure on the shed (which is on its last legs anyway) is of some concern. And between you and me I'm looking forward to doing something new and teaching those pesky kids that keep sitting and climbing on our trees and generally being a nuisance that we won't tolerate it any longer. Damn those child safety laws that stop me taking any definite action - and don't worry, I'm not talking about physical assault or anything like that. For an example, if I start cutting down the tree, and decide to leave it for the night (because it’s getting dark or cold or whatever), and a child climbs on it, and gets hurt, it's my fault! How unfair is that? Especially as it's not even my child or their tree!

(Note at this point the internet went west for some random reason right in the middle of my writing this despite the fact there was no activity taking place, I had to switch over to my existing wireless network, but then the computer suddenly slowed right down and I decided to run an anti-virus check. The check failed half way through, but by then I'd already gone to bed. I'm continuing these six hours later in the morning when things have mysteriously fixed themselves.).

Anyway, in site news I'm trying out a new content management system, e107 which looks to be quite fully-featured with a good number of themes and plugins supporting it. I plan to install it soon and will hopefully use it as the base for hosting my stories, lyrics, etc. I had tried out a number of CMS's at < a href="www.opensourcecms.com">Open Source CMS</a> and found this to be the best cross between its functionality and ability to do the job that I want it to do. I also finally qualified for the < ahref="http://forums.digitalpoint.com">DigitalPoint Forums</a> AdSense participation programme. This works by sharing the revenue generated by that site from AdSense between all of its registered members, provided they have posted 50 or more times on the boards. So I'm looking forward to this boosting my own profits.

OK, that's all for now, I'm off to go and do, err, well I'm sure something will spring to mind. Have a great day!

Tags:adsense, chainsaw, cms, health, neuralgia, rifle shooting, trees
Mood:sleepy
Music:Kate Ryan - Combian de Fois (Alive - 2007)

Customize

This page was loaded Dec 1st 2009, 3:30 pm GMT.

Advertisement